Berlusconi shamed by his organs

You'd never guess how interesting Italian ministers can be. Especially when their biographies have been translated into English by a computer with an eccentric sense of literary style.

Paolo Bonaiuti, we learn from the Italian government's official website, "is megaphone of the President Berlusconi". Lucio Stanca, the Minister for Innovation, is "conjugated and it has two daughters". He also graduated "near the University Mouthfuls" – a rendering of the prestigious Bocconi University.

The Christian Democrat leader, Rocco Buttiglione, had an influential relationship with "August of the Walnut", better known as the academic Augusto Del Noce. Maurizio Gasparri was once "Undersecretary to the Inside and member of the Forehead of the Youth".

Claudio Scajola, the Interior Minister, was "put endured to the job" of making up for the "lack of endowed organs" in Forza Italia, in 1996. He also enjoys sailing and a competition called "America Goblet".

A tongue-in-cheek article in La Repubblica at the weekend had the country laughing at the computer illiteracy of Mr Berlusconi's team, which is set on taking the country full-speed into the digital age. Hapless figures such as Letizia Moratti, the Education Minister, will be lumbered with gender uncertainty – she was referred to as he, she and it – for a long time yet.

The government removed the pages and unconvincingly accused La Repubblica of hacking into website areas "never intended for publication". The only biography in flawless English was that of Mr Berlusconi. And it was no fun at all.